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Mark your calendar for the 2025 Earth Day Festival! This event will be held on Saturday, April 26, 2025, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Sully Historic Site (3650 Historic Sully Way, Chantilly, VA). Admission is FREE! Parking is $10 per car at the gate. Cash and credit accepted. Learn how you can make a positive impact on the planet through exciting, interactive activities and games. You won't want to miss this fun, family event!
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One in every four college students in Virginia cannot afford their next meal. You can help combat food insecurity by attending Mason Empty Bowls on Wednesday, April 30, 6:00 – 9:00 p.m., at the Center for the Arts (4373 Mason Pond Dr, Fairfax, VA 22030). Enjoy an evening of live music, soups, bread, desserts, and art. Guests will choose a handmade ceramic bowl to take home as a reminder of all the students in the community who face empty bowls each day. All proceeds are donated to Mason's Student Food and Housing Insecurity Fund.
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ChangeLab Solutions has created a resource entitled, "Justice on the Menu: Legal & Policy Strategies to Address Structural Discrimination in the US Food System", which provides current and historical context, practical and legal considerations, a menu of policy choices, and community examples of policies in action.
To learn more about this resource and putting policies into action, join ChangeLab Solutions on May 1 at 2:00 p.m. for "Supporting Thriving Food Systems Through Good Governance", the second webinar in their "Accelerating Policy Change" series.
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Loudon and Northern Virginia Soil and Water Conservation Districts will host a Small Farm Outreach Event on Monday, May 5, from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. at Potomac Vegetable Farms (15227 Berlin Turnpike, Purcellville, VA).
All farmers are invited to attend and learn:
- What services and resources are available to you through your local Soil and Water Conservation District and partner agencies
- Hear from neighboring farmers about their experiences
- How to test your soil and interpret the results
- Integrated pest management techniques
Event questions can be directed to Suzie.Brown@lswcd.org
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The Capital Area Food Bank is here to support those who have been impacted by recent reductions in federal jobs and funding. The food bank is holding new pop-up food distributions twice a week. These pop-up distributions will offer food boxes containing shelf-stable groceries and fresh produce on Thursdays from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. and Saturdays from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m., or until supplies last each day.
The distributions can be found in the parking lots of the following retail locations:
- DC:
- Maryland:
- Giant: 7074 Allentown Rd, Camp Springs, MD
- Giant: 7546 Annapolis Rd, Lanham, MD
- Virginia:
- Giant: 6364a Springfield Plaza, Springfield, VA
- Safeway: 4215 Cheshire Station Plaza, Dale City, VA
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The Food Access Program website is now live, making it easier to find local food resources. This one-stop hub connects residents to programs coordinated by Neighborhood and Community Services, including food and nutrition education, as well as county-wide initiatives like free and reduced-price school meals, and federal assistance programs such as SNAP and WIC.
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Please join the Partnership for a Healthier Fairfax on Wednesday, May 21, from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. to learn how you can build community through health improvement and celebrate the 2025 Live Healthy Award winners, who exemplify efforts to improve the health of the Fairfax community. Don’t miss this uplifting and inspiring afternoon!
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Kiss the Ground is an inspiring and groundbreaking film that reveals the first viable solution to our climate crisis -- regenerating the world’s soils. We can completely and rapidly stabilize Earth’s climate, restore lost ecosystems and create abundant food supplies by drawing down atmospheric carbon. Soil is the missing piece of the climate puzzle.
Common Ground, the sequel to Kiss the Ground, unveils a dark web of money, power, and politics behind our broken food system. The film reveals how unjust practices forged our current farm system in which farmers of all colors are literally dying to feed us. The film profiles a hopeful and uplifting movement of white, black, and indigenous farmers who are using alternative “regenerative” models of agriculture that could balance the climate, save our health, and stabilize America’s economy - before it’s too late.
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Meets from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m.
April 23
May 28
June 25
Meets from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m.
May 19 (In-Person)
June 16
July 21
Meets from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m.
May 20
June 17
July 15
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Any community member is welcome to attend work group meetings and events. All meetings and events are virtual, unless otherwise noted.
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